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Monika Bradl is associated Professor at the Center for Brain Research (Medical University Vienna, Austria (http://cbr.meduniwien.ac.at/)). Her research interests include the autoimmune mechanisms and cellular and pathological processes involved in neuroimmunological diseases, especially neuromyelitis optica. She obtained a degree in Biology at the Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg (Germany) in 1986, a PhD in Biology (Dr. rer. nat.) in 1989, and then went to Philadelphia (USA) for a post-doctoral fellowship at the Fox Chase Cancer Center. After her return to Germany in 1992, she was a group leader at the Max-Planck-Institute for Neurobiology in Martinsried in the Department Neuroimmunology. In 2002, she obtained [...]

Professor of Neuroinflammation Department of Clinical Neuroscience Center for Molecular Medicine Karolinska Institutet Stockholm, Sweden Website: https://ki.se/en/people/majjag Maja Jagodic completed her MSc degree at the University of Belgrade, Serbia in Molecular Biology and Physiology specializing in Experimental Medicine in 1999. She then moved to Sweden, where she obtained her PhD degree at the Karolinska Institutet studying genetic predisposition to autoimmune diseases in model organisms in 2004. After thesis defence, she spent a year at the Karolinska Institutet gaining skills in human genetics. Already towards the end of her PhD thesis, Maja became fascinated by the field of epigenetics. Epigenetic mechanisms [...]

Professor of Molecular Biology Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences Biomedical Research Institute Hasselt University, Belgium Website:www.uhasselt.be/biomed-en Veerle Somers is a Full Professor of Molecular Biology at Hasselt University and Vice Dean of the Transnationale Universiteit Limburg, School of Life Sciences. She is head of disease markers & bionanotechnology program at the Biomedical Research Institute (BIOMED) and biobank coordinator at the Clinical Research Center (CRC) of Hasselt University. Somers’ main research interests focus on B cell analysis and biomarker discovery in autoimmune and neurologic diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis, Spinal cord injury, Rheumatoid arthritis and Axial spondyloarthritis. Veerle Somers has [...]

Christian Vedeler is senior consultant and professor at the Department of Neurology, Haukeland University Hospital and Department for Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Norway. He is the head of the neuroimmunology section at the Neurology department, group leader for the Research group on Paraneoplastic Neurological Syndromes (PNS) at the University (https://www.uib.no/en/rg/pns) and board member of the newly-found Neuro-SysMed Center of Excellence for Research in Brain Diseases in Norway. <— Antonio Uccelli      Angela Vincent —>